WAT (antipiracy update) released unofficaly....official launch at 17/02

Use Hazar method. Search previous pages to find a solution. Someone else also had a problem like you.

 

It won't work now i think. Hazar asked to disconnect from the net, install the update and then run the commands to block access of those files. But it looks they have already done their job for GeekSquad.

 

Theres a solution to everything though isn't there ? Can i try anything else mates?

 

Sorry if this issue has already been addressed but this thread's pretty long now at 64 pages.

Has anyone who'd done a BIOS mod and activated Windows 7 Ultimate passed the authentication thing? I'm referring to hardmodded systems with no loaders BUT using SLICs, SLPs, product keys and certificates not from their motherboards / notebooks' manufacturers.

My previous systems where I'd installed and activated Windows 7 Ultimate successfully and painlessly all had their BIOS updated with manufacturer relevant information but I'm on a Zotac motherboard based system now running Dell SLIC, SLP, product key and certificate.

 

We just need to wait for 2 more days when the update is officially released so we can be sure the call-home servers are up and running. Right now some say the update didn't change anything and some have become non-genuine.

 

Yup, i'm one of them, i installed update already and became non-genuine, and then i used REMOVEWAT and non-genuine messages disappeared, is there any chance of them returning still? btw, in services, 'watadmin' from update is still there? :S could this effect my copy in any way still ?

 

Dell XPS M1530 with modded bios (Dell) and non-Dell key called not genuine 20 hours after installation of WAT.
This may be worse than we think, no key found to reactivate and Hazar's method did not work. Didn't try REMOVEWAT.

 

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you installed update? I m wonder, why you download & install? why not uncheck box "Update for Microsoft Windows (KB971033)? :confuse

 

After installing the update and applying Hazar's latest fix all seems well. Many thanks Hazar

WatAdminSvc on mine is reporting: <Failed to Read Description. Error Code: 5 >

(7 Ult. x86 with an early loader)

 

Also,

@anemeros
sure, your team may have done all this fancy work for Chew7 and I'm really happy for you. People wanted a fix, and they wanted a fix now, and I thought it was a good idea. You can say what you like about it, seems to work for me. If they require them in the future, we're just gonna work around it. Perhaps people can block WatAdminSvc with their firewall so it returns genuine. There's no ends of solutions that me and the other community members are willing to think of and provide, and put simply, anything they do, we can put back

 

Great words from a great man ^^.

 

Absolutely!

I don't see your effort as a rushed stab in the dark at all, quite the contrary. AFAICS this should do the job nicely but that said, we can of course only wait and see... always the old cat n mouse game and many ways to skin a rabbit!

Alot to be said for immunisation, and any effort is muchly appreciated

 

hazar you are right

@ anemeros

WAT can perform a check of the integrity of ACL (this is very easy to do)
for example to systemcpl.dll

After checking the change of ACLs , can change/modify the vulnerable point (user32.dll)

User32.dll is a big problem

and the party is over (chess game)
good luck

 

user32 is just a gui library (patched to remove watermark). no ACL editing going on there. Do you mean MD5?

 

To be honest, Microsoft don't actually care about piracy (they make the big money on the OEMs like Dell and Acer)

Microsoft's partners DO CARE, and their biggest worry is unscrupulous system builders SLICing some BIOS on a computer and giving it to a customer, having to pay no money for a license. Of course, Microsoft has to act on this.

 

Piracy = publicity. I reckon M$ revel in the hype that is caused by news of new WAT updates. Just like when 7 officialy launched back in october. The funny thing is that rather than making us all go reaching for the cash and paying for a valid license, all these press releases do is lay down the gauntlet for communities such as ours to find another way of circumventing their anti piracy technologies.

So the new WAT guy is trying to come down hard on all the pirates..........
Well he is new to his job and has to make a good impression for old Billy boy does'nt he ? Ironically isnt that punishing the people that actually pointed out the flaws in the OS that the boffins at M$ could'nt ?

IMO, its all hype and gives us something good to discuss about. I mean come on everyone........ M$ have only just after 17, yes 17 years finally managed to close a security loop-hole present in all windows OS's. Do we really think they can shut the door on all WAT workarounds just 4 months after the official release of windows 7....................Me thinks not !!

 

Memory is very important
We must remember that happened with SP1 for VISTA.

timerstop x32 and x64 ---> disabled
paradox (widely used emulator driver) ---> disabled

Emulators (softmod) were not affected but that's probably why it has appeared WAT

@ hazar

A single watermark and spoils everything
user32.dll is very vulnerable because their permits acl
the md5 is falsifiable but not acl files
good luck